“Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.”

“Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.”

“Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.”

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

“To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.”

“If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...”

“Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”